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posted by takyon on Thursday March 08 2018, @09:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the you've-got-mailware dept.

A bug in an obscure but widely used email program may be putting as many as 400,000 servers around the world at risk of serious attack until they install an update.

The flaw—which is in all releases of the Exim message transfer agent except for version 4.90.1—opens servers to attacks that can execute malicious code, researchers who discovered the vulnerability warned in an advisory published Tuesday. The buffer overflow vulnerability, which is indexed as CVE-2018-6789, resides in base64 decode function. By sending specially manipulated input to a server running Exim, attackers may be able to remotely execute code.


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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by c0lo on Thursday March 08 2018, @10:59AM (5 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 08 2018, @10:59AM (#649427) Journal

    Trump haven't snot on someone else's cake for some days, the brexiters are outraged on Putin attempting to kill another of their defected spy with a nerve agent, JWST and F-35 still compete for the project of the century - which one gets to run over 100 years and not reach completion - nothing new here either. Even Elon Musk is fascinated by his boring company, so he's boring as well.

    The last school shooting is old new already, the investment agencies started to slowly advertise to mom-and-pop investors something about cryptocurrency - that's deep future news, it will take a while until a bubble burst will wipe out the savings of the mid class; again. Until then miners wars for your CPU, 'cause the video-cards are still expensive like hell; but we know that already.

    God, even aristrachus couldn't find anything worthy on alt-right and started to pretend Oculus rift is something a philosopher could be interested, nay, passionated.
    TMB is exhausted after trolling S/N with two stories about sex with underage and what's underage anyway? Meh, free speech and all that.

    What is there to do, right? Let's announce a vuln in Exim, a something nobody here heard about.

    I reckon I'd better try to remember how to read a dead-tree book, maybe today I'll get asleep earlier, dam'd insomnia.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:08AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:08AM (#649428)

    Right, guys? RIGHT?!

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:09AM (#649430)

      Alt-right, yes.

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:20AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:20AM (#649433)

      "Offtopic"

      I dare you, then, to come with something on-topic.
      I double-dare you, motherfucker.

      • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:05PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:05PM (#649556)

        I emailed your mom and got a bunch of viruses sending me big booty pics. Damn you Exim!!!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:03PM (#649555)

    Ha! I avoided those stories as I expected the comments to be a dumpster fire, sounds like I was right. Maybe TMB is actually an FBI agent running a honeypot to catch the truly alt-wrong.